California has some of the nation’s leading climate policies, with hard deadlines to slash greenhouse gas emissions, switch to zero-emission cars and trucks and get 100% of its electricity from carbon-free sources. But so far, its leaders have lagged behind other states, like Maine and New York, in using another important tool — the financial power of its massive public pension funds — to hasten the nation’s independence from fossil fuels.
Helping to fund the destruction of our environment is insanity; profiting from it makes us complicit. We urge California lawmakers to pass Editorial: Climate change is making California more expensive. Home insurance is the latest bellwether